 | | Never had a problem!!! Ive never had anyproblems, EVER!!! as far as i can see this its an awesome service!!!!
ive hade vibe for a year now and i see all these ppl complaining WTF!!! is wrong woth there comps or somethin... cuz i get 256/64 kBps all the time only had 2 outages (@4am)so so far no problems!!! this is an awesome service, better than cable...
if u can get it
GET IT NOW!!!
(well if u get it now u will get pppoe, my friend has it and is satisfied) | |
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Dslam
join:2007-04-04
Canada | Upgrades? When is Aliant planning to upgrade their services? IPTV was supposed to be rolled out on September but nothing yet. My line synch has been 8000-640 for a while but 5meg is all I get. I'd like to see an upgrade in the CO port speed in the near future. Rogers is looking better all the time. | |
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| | Aliant forging packets to tamper with usage I ordered Aliant Ultra-high speed ADSL service when moving from Ontario to New Brunswick around October 1, 2007. At that time, customer service assured me that full, open, and unfettered internet access and they do not block or hinder the use of BitTorrent or other peer-to-peer protocols.
Within two months, as has been reported elsewhere, they started capping BitTorrent downloads to 30kB per second during primetime to "ensure fair use of the network".
Shortly after that, following the example of the U.S. carrier Comcast, they started injecting faked packets to prevent the connection from being used to upload BitTorrent data to other peers.
The equipment they use does this by watching the traffic and sending a special type of packet called a reset or RST packet to both peers in the stream, in such a way as to make both ends think the other really sent it. This causes the connection between them to be reset and close.
Technical support and customer service personnel are either not aware of the situation or are under a policy of non-disclosure as they have been completely unwilling to entertain a discussion or enter a ticket for investigation.
it's both troubling and disappointing to see a Maritime company we should be able to be proud of treating its customers so shabbily. | |
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 | | | Re: Aliant forging packets to tamper with usage I have noticed my download speed is one third (1/3) of what it used to be... | |
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| | | Oh yeah... me too. And just now I was having a sluggish connection (http surfing, downloading), then closed my BT client and my http speeds went through the roof... | |
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| | Dslam
join:2007-04-04
Canada | Re: Aliant forging packets to tamper with usage I think you might have other issues. No problems here. | |
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| | | Dslam I don't think he has another problem, I think you're just lucky. Ive been using that same client for several years and although my speeds have been decent in the past...currently its about hopeless to try anything. With patience things will download, but as for seeding back...FORGET IT. There are even alot of days that absolutely nothing will upload anywhere (including not even being able to upload my own graphics to my own paid site) Its extremely annoying and frustrating! Considering eastern Canada has few choices for isp (I would be w/o net b4 I yse Rogers)Aliant sure has the upper hand in the services and quality of products they provide or in this case don't provide. | |
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| | Dslam
join:2007-04-04
Canada
1 edit | Re: Aliant forging packets to tamper with usage I recall in another forum that Microsoft had released some sort of update to the TCP\ip limiting the number of connections. Might be that because if BT was turned off the speeds went through the roof.
Here is a quote from the Sympatico form
Looks like the root cause of your issues is related to the fact that your TCPIP.SYS file had been set to 10 half-open connections. This was brought to light only recently due to the fact that Microsoft has updated that file as of January 8th, 2008, tagged as a critical update (»www.microsoft.com/technet/securi···01.mspx).
BitTorrent can use up those 10 half-open connections within a minute of a well seeded torrent, leaving any other applications you attempt to use from that PC fighting for bandwidth, which results in what you're experiencing.
Do some searching on Google and you'll find what you need to make the change to 50 half-open connections, which should fix the problem.
This is also something every P2P forum has been recommending to change for years now since this problem has been around that long and is completely unrelated to Internet Traffic Management.
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Sens up 3-2 vs Leafs...GO SENS GO | |
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| | | | | Re: Aliant forging packets to tamper with usage Just make sure your bittorrent client has encryption enabled (like utorrent has) and your transfer rates will be maxed out again in no time. | |
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| |  Aliant High-Speed Max - up to 10 Mbps
Just curious if anyone had this service? Right now I have 5 Mbps, but my line rate is 8 Mbps (the maximum for ADSL?) So does that mean HS Max is ADSL 2? I am curious if there is a replacement modem (have 6520 now) and if the speeds are really 10 Mbps. Also, is the upload rate any better? I get 640 kbps upstream now, but I've heard ADSL2 supports over 1 Mbps?? I used the online too and apparently my phone line qualifies. | |
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| | | Re: Aliant High-Speed Max - up to 10 Mbps I have the service and while my line profile is set to 10 Meg, I can only pull in on average 8.5 Meg. On Ultra which you have (I used to have myself before I upgraded) your line profile is always set to 8000/640 but your actual speed just depends on your distance from the CO. High-Speed Max is ADSL2+, what they will do is swap your modem (I also had a 6520) and give you a Siemens Gigaset modem. Don't expect to hit 10 Meg unless you live very close to the CO otherwise just stick with Ultra. | |
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| | | | Re: Aliant High-Speed Max - up to 10 Mbps thanks for the info. I think that since the line is synched at 8000/640 I am able to get that speed but it is limited at the ATM because ultra is limited at 5000 (I hear the other 3000 is used for IPTV which I don't have). Is the upload speed any better on Max? | |
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| | | | | Re: Aliant High-Speed Max - up to 10 Mbps I have Max (signed up when was still called Premium), I get the 10Mbps down. The upload is up to 1.25Mbps (took a lot of effort to get someone at Aliant to tell me that) - but my modem trains at 1Mbit upload.
I enjoy the speed increase. | |
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Dslam
join:2007-04-04
Canada | 2 Wire with Aliant? Aliant is rolling out the 2Wire modems! I was in Future Shop and saw them. You can buy them for a hundred bucks but get it back as a credit on your bill. does that mean we own them or they own them? I still have an old comtrend kicking around here somewhere that they gave me. Since then I've been using my own modem without issue. | |
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To make matters worse, if I leave it running, everything else will randomly disconnect. Its like the whole connection gets shut down fo 30 seconds, then comes back up. Happened about 10 times today.
Anybody else seeing that? | |
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|  insomxPremium
join:2003-01-26
Canada | Re: Shaping? It's not throttling, by the sounds of things you just have bad signal on your modem. | |
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| | my god tech support is stupid I tryed to talk them into forceing my other modem into going 4.5mbit, as I have one doing said speed fairly stable
they are both gigaset ?567? modems and both are new wiring around the house and to the poll, installed same time
the attenuation is the same at only 40 but I"m about 4km from exchange
But here is the deal they can't support 3rd party routers so they can't help me??? WTF I said nothing about my router my router is god damned fine.
Then they seemed to think I was saying it was slower on one computer than the other... wtf...
Then when I brought up interleaving there like we don't get into that sort of thing here (pretty sure she had no idea what I was talking about)
Does anyone know if aliant supports increasing interleaving depth?? (it mixes data from lots of packets into one packet and reconstructs it at the modem) it reduces error and increases sync on marginal lines at the cost of 20-40ms ping | |
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| | | Re: my god tech support is stupid oh turns out i'm only 3.3km from exchange
and my modems have run from 6 mbit to 1.5mbit with the same amount of noise (signal decreases and errors inscrease as speed goes up)
Tech support said deleting my cookies will make my modem sync at a faster speed......... | |
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| | Worst Internet Provider In New Brunswick Nuff said about this one | |
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